Highlighted CMEC papers

Cracking the Code of Biodiversity Responses to Past Climate Change

2018.08.30

Published in Trends Ecology and Evolution by Nogués-Bravo, D., Fordham, D. A., et al.

Trajectories of the Earth System in the Anthropocene

2018.08.07

Published in PNAS by Steffen, W., ..., Richardson, K., et al.

Modeling the ecology and evolution of biodiversity: Biogeographical cradles, museums, and graves

2018.07.20

Published in Science by Rangel, T. F., ... , Rahbek, C. and Colwell, R. K.

Fungal spore diversity reflects substrate-specific deposition challenges

2018.04.06

Published in Scientific Reports by Heilmann-Clausen, J. et al.

Trait evolution, resource specialization and vulnerability to plant extinctions among Antillean hummingbirds

2018.03.21

Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B by Dalsgaard, B., Kennedy, J .D., González, A. M.…

Best practices for reporting climate data in ecology

2018.02.02

Published in Nature Climate Change by Morueta-Holme, N. et al.

Process, Mechanism, and Modeling in Macroecology

2017.12.23

Published in Trends in Ecology & Evolution by Connolly, S. R., Keith. S. A., Colwell, R. K., Rahbek…

Biogeography and biotic assembly of Indo-Pacific Corvoid passerine birds

2017.11.01

Published in Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution and Systematics by Jønsson, K.A., Borregaard, M.K.…

Photosynthetic oxygen production in a warmer ocean: the Sargasso Sea as a case study

2017.08.07

Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society A by Richardson, K. and Bendtsen, J.

The neglected geography of human pathogens and diseases

2017.06.22

Correspondence published in Nature by Stensgaard, A.S., Dunn, R.R., Vennervald, B.J. and Rahbek, C.

Higher predation risk for insect prey at low latitudes and elevations

2017.05.19

Published in Science by Roslin, T., Hardwick, B., Novoty, V., Petry, W.K., Andrew, N.R., Asmus, A.,…

Resource tracking within and across continents in long-distance bird migrants

2017.01.04

Published in Science Advances by Thorup, K., Tøttrup, A., Willesmoes, M., Vega, M., Araújo, M.,…

An Anthropocene map of genetic diversity

2016.09.29

Published in Science by Miraldo, A., Li, S., Borregaard, M. K., Flórez-Rodríguez, F., Rizvanovic,…

Wildlife population trends in protected areas predicted by national socio-economic metrics and body size

2016.09.01

Published in Nature Communications by Geldmann, J., Burgess, N.D and co-authors.

Population decline is linked to migration route in the Common Cuckoo

2016.07.19

Published in Nature Communications by Thorup, K. and co-authors.

How humans drive speciation as well as extinction

2016.06.29

Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B by Bull, J. and co-author.

Social selection parapatry in Afrotropical sunbirds

2016.06.01

Published in Evolution by Hansen, L., Fjeldså, J. and co-authors.

Coral mass spawning Predicted by rapid seasonal rise in ocean temperature

2016.05.11

Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B by Keith, S.A., Rahbek, C. and co-authors

Unifying latitudinal gradients in range size and richness across marine and terrestrial systems

2016.05.04

Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B by Kennedy, J.D., Rahbek, C. and co-authors.

Filling in biodiversity threat gaps

2016.04.22

Published in Science by Geldmann, J., Burgess, N. D. and co-authors.

Factoring attitudes towards armed conflict risk into selection of protected areas for conservation

2016.03.30

Published in Nature Communications by Strange, N. and co-authors.

Rewilding is the new Pandora’s box in conservation

2016.03.09

Published i Current Biology by David Nogués-Bravo, Carsten Rahbek, Nathan James and co-authors.

High proportion of smaller ranged hummingbird species coincides with ecological specialization across the Americas

2016.03.09

Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences by Sonne, J., Gonzaléz, A.M.M.…

Tracking Animal Dispersal: From Individual Movement to Community Assembly and Global Range Dynamics

2016.03.04

Published in Trends of Ecology & Evolution by Knud Jønsson, Carsten Rahbek, Kasper Thorup and…

Global patterns and substrate-based mechanisms of the terrestrial nitrogen cycle

2016.03.02

Published in Ecology Letters by Classen, A. and co-authors.

Global divergence of the human follicle mite Demodex folliculorum: Persistent associations between host ancestry and mite lineages

2015.12.29

Published in PNAS by Robert R. Dunn and co-authers.

True navigation in migrating gulls requires intact olfactory nerves

2015.11.24

Published in Nature by Kasper Thorup and co-authors.

Flexible navigation response in common cuckoos Cuculus canorus displaced experimentally during migration

2015.11.09

Published in Nature by Mikkel Willemoes, Kasper Thorup and co-authors.

Seasonal copepod lipid pump promotes carbon sequestration in the deep North Atlantic

2015.09.29

Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences by Katerine Richardson and co-authors.

Response to Comment on "Whole-genome analyses resolve early branches in the tree of life of modern birds".

2015.09.25

Published in Science by Jon Fjeldså, Carsten Rahbek and co-authors.

Genomics: Bird sequencing project takes off

2015.06.03

Published in Nature by Guojie Zhang, Carsten Rahbek, Gary, R. Graves and co-authors.

Climate mediates the effects of disturbance on ant assemblage structure

2015.04.21

Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences by Nathan J. Sanders and…

Planetary Boundaries updated

2015.01.20

Four of nine planetary boundaries have now been crossed as a result of human activity, show…

Avian genome evolution

2014.12.11

A large international team with CMEC scientists Carsten Rahbek, Jon Fjeldså and Knud Jønsson has…

A mid-term analysis of progress toward international biodiversity targets

2014.10.03

Published in Science , co-authored by N. Burgess from CMEC.

Applying evolutionary biology to address global challenges

2014.09.11

Published in Science Express, with P.S. Jørgensen from CMEC as one of the leading authors.

Genetic variation reveals large-scale population expansion and migration during the expansion of Bantu-speaking peoples

2014.08.12

Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B by Sen Li and co-authors.

Better forecasts of range dynamics using genetic data

2014.06.17

Published in TREE by David Nogues-Bravo, Damien Fordham and co-authors.

Global warming favours light-coloured insects in Europe

2014.05.28

Published in Nature Communications by Carsten Rahbek, Dirk Zeuss and Stefan Brunzel.

Multiple dimensions of climate change and their implications for biodiversity

2014.05.02

Raquel Garcia, Carsten Rahbek, Miguel Araújo and co-authors, provide this review in Science.

Evidence of taxon cycles in an Indo-Pacific passerine bird radiation

2014.01.30

Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B in January 2014, Knud Jønsson and co-authors provid…

An update of Wallace's zoogeographic map

2013.01.07

Published in Science in January 2013, by Ben Holt, Jean-Philippe Lessard, Carsten Rahbek and 12…

Migrants delayed by drought in Africa

2012.12.07

A recent paper in Science: “Drought in Africa caused extreme delayed arrival of European songbirds”…

Early human arrival

2012.08.07

A Letter in PNAS entitled “Human arrival scenarios have a strong influence on interpretations of th…

Vangas Beat Darwin’s Finches in Diversity

2012.05.07

A recent paper in PNAS: "Ecological and evolutionary determinants for the adaptive radiation of the…

Communities under climate change

2011.11.28

A recent Perspective in Science by Nogués-Bravo and Rahbek highlights the need of better integratin…

Rethinking species’ ability to cope with rapid climate change

2011.08.15

A recent study in Global Change Biology by CMEC researchers lead by Christian Hof and Irina Levnisk…

Long-term climate change and diversity patterns

2011.07.29

A study in Ecology Letters co-authored by David Nogués-Bravo shows that biodiversity is controlled…

Regional species pools shape local communities

2011.06.16

J.-P. Lessard et al. have a new paper in Proceedings of the Royal Society B.

Biodiversity - species loss revisited

2011.05.23

Carsten Rahbek and Rob Colwell writes in Nature about study demonstrating that Species-Area-Curves…

Climate change threatens European conservation areas

2011.05.03

A study in Ecology Letters co-authored by David Nogués-Bravo shows that Natura 2000 areas don't…

PNAS-paper by K.Jønsson et.al. (CMEC):

2011.02.28

Major global radiation of corvoid birds originated in the proto-Papuan archipelago

21st century climate change threatens mountain flora unequally across Europe

2011.01.27

A recent study in Global Change Biology co-authored by David Nogués-Bravo

Sequential forest degradation spreading from Dar es Salaam

2010.08.10

Paper in PNAS by Neil Burgess (CMEC) and scientists from 11 other organisations in Europe

Link found between ‘Climate Footprints’ and mass mammal extinction

2010.05.19

David Nogués-Bravo et al. has published a study using global data modelling to build continental…

Body size variation at risk in the world’s mammals

2010.04.07

Susanne Fritz (CMEC) and Andy Purvis (Imperial College London) have a paper in Proceedings of the…

Towards a mechanistic understanding of distribution-abundance relationships

2010.03.25

In a recent paper in QRB, Borregaard and Rahbek reviews the causality of one of ecology's most…

Species assemblages at larger geographical scale

2010.03.24

Carsten Rahbek has a paper published in PNAS on macroecological signals of species interactions

The Longest Migration

2010.01.20

Carsten Egevang has a paper published in PNAS on tracking Arctic tern throughout their migration…

Hindcasting species climatic niches

2009.08.18

A recent paper in GEB reviews and offer new venues to predict the past distribution of species…

Projected impacts of climate change on a continent-wide protected area network.